Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | 8:45 am
[UPDATED] A Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member pulled a motion on a series of eight proposed law enforcement reform measures Tuesday that has been slated for a vote later in the day, while Pasadena police officials say the vast majority of suggesti... More »
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | 7:51 am
It’s November 1996. Republican Pete Wilson is Governor of California. California’s Congressional delegation is split exactly down the middle between Democrats and Republicans. Sonny Bono is a Congressman. A dance craze called the Macarena is sweeping the n... More »
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | 7:35 am
PCC Superintendent/President Erika Endrijonas signed an executive order on Monday that immediately prohibits the use of carotid restraints, or chokeholds, by PCC Campus Police. The order also creates a 13-member Campus Police Policy Task Force with the charge ... More »
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | 4:56 am
A Pasadena federal appeals panel Monday revived a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright against Guillermo del Toro over elements of the director’s multiple Oscar-winning fantasy “The Shape of Water.” In its wr... More »
Monday, June 22, 2020 | 3:47 pm
Prosecutors filed charges Monday against a woman accused of torching an abandoned building in Pasadena while people were inside, officials said. Sylvia Juanita Arredondo, 29, described as a local transient, pleaded not guilty to felony counts of arson and arso... More »
Monday, June 22, 2020 | 1:51 pm
A Pasadena man who was released on parole less than three years ago for the fatal beating and stabbing of his stepmother in 1986 admitted Monday to stabbing and strangling a retired gynecologist in her East Los Angeles home last year, authorities said. Timothy... More »
Monday, June 22, 2020 | 12:33 pm
As I was driving to work today I was thinking about how it must feel to be a police officer in this current climate. These men and women are sworn to protect us and 99.9% do just that. Without them, chaos reigns and all you have to do is turn on the news and y... More »
Monday, June 22, 2020 | 7:04 am
[UPDATED] Police arrested a local transient after she was caught lighting trash on fire and trying to shove it under a door at the Pasadena Police Department early Monday, authorities said. Alexandra Scully, 47, was booked on suspicion of arson following her a... More »
Monday, June 22, 2020 | 3:23 am
It’s hard to pick the right word for what it is. Sympathy? Empathy? Compassion? I looked up the definitions of each one of these and none of them are quite right. Such is the kingdom of names, ultimately unsatisfying. Wanting to help others? The Golden Rule... More »
Sunday, June 21, 2020 | 8:26 am
Pasadena police Sunday morning said they were investigating at the scene of attempted murder by a man of his neighbor about 3:30 a.m. The suspect is in custody in the Pasadena jail. Police said when the suspect intervened in a domestic dispute between his neig... More »
Saturday, June 20, 2020 | 6:40 am
“Our values are with our community and we are informed by our community. Creating our food pantry was a natural extension of our work because we are a family, and we share what we have.” – Yoland Trevino, PACTL.ORG Executive Director At Pasadena/Altadena Coali... More »
Saturday, June 20, 2020 | 5:15 am
[Updated] A tense situation developed outside Pasadena Police Department headquarters Friday evening during a demonstration when police moved into a crowd of over 100 to detain a man who had confronted protest organizer Jasmine Abdullah Richards. The man was ... More »